“Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”—Alasdair Gray.

“If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god.”—Graydon Saunders

The International Socialist Group has broken with decades of tradition and published a worthwhile book: Karl Kautsky's Foundations of Christianity. It's a long time since I read this Marxist classic but I remember learning a lot from it. It's a fine example of how to use the materialist method to work over the best available information. This means it's very dated now, but it remains worth reading, and at £11 or $22 on Amazon it's a good buy.

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Sorry to break topic, but I've just started to read your last book - The Execution Channel. And...wow...what can I say? Having been a huge fan of Gibson and Sterling for about as long as I can remember, I was seriously doubtful when reading about it, but then my girlfriend (who works in a bookstore) read it. I visited her at work and she wouldn't let me leave without.

So, what can I say?

Thanks a bunch for what amounts to the best book I've ever read along with Spook Country by Gibson, and Recipies for Disaster by Crimethinc.

Liam, fair point. It's just that when I look over a list of the IMG's and ISG's pamphlets, etc, there aren't many that anyone would consider worth reprinting as having stood the test of time, or even captured their historical moment. I can think of a couple of exceptions: 'Capital: a readable introduction to Vol 1' and John Ross's 'Imperialism, Stalinism and Permanent Revolution' but that's about it and it's going back a long way.